Longman Elementary Dictionary and Thesaurus With color photographs and illustrations

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The new Longman Elementary Dictionary and Thesaurus is a welcome alternative to reference materials that are often too dense and intimidating for children. It combines the strengths of both traditional and picture dictionaries with the flexibility of a child-friendly thesaurus to empower young language learners to expand their English vocabularies.

Designed for grades 3-8, this new support tool allows users to navigate easily between the dictionary when reading and the thesaurus when writing. A 16-page picture dictionary covers basic vocabulary, with topics ranging from wild animals and pets to sports, verbs of movement, music, and more, providing a suitable context for vocabulary acquisition and writing-skill development.

The Longman Elementary Dictionary and Thesaurus is supported by a Pedagogical Teacher's Guide written by Kate Kinsella, Ed.D. and Tonya Ward Singer, Teacher Educators and National Academic Language and Literacy Consultants. This research-based teacher's resource offers practical and highly-effective instructional routines giving teachers clear guidance on how to use the dictionary as a powerful instructional tool.

Program Highlights

• Large hardcover format features 10,000 terms - including content vocabulary and academic and instruction words - based on vocabulary acquisition studies and research into the needs of elementary learners.
• Features 1,000+ illustrations, simple definitions, example sentences, synonyms and antonyms, and affixes.
• Combined dictionary and thesaurus is appropriate for both young learners and mixed-ability classes.
• Accessible definitions and example sentences are relevant to this age group.

Special Features

• Word Family boxes show words with the same root such as confuse, confusion, and confusing
• Word Building boxes explain how words are created using prefixes and suffixes such as boredom, freedom, breathless, careless, contradict, contrary.
• Word Origin boxes have interesting and fun facts on the origin of words such as adobe, democracy, dinosaurus, chipmunk, and chocolate.
• Word Choice boxes explain the difference between confusable words such as less and fever, fun and funny.